Ramström, Frida (2025) Doing ethics through psychological theory. Master thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
Ethics are fundamental to psychology, as the primary subject of it is the human experience. Yet, this is not fully reflected in practice, where the scope of ethics tends to lean on ideas rooted in the natural science approach to psychology, resulting in a relatively narrow focus of ethics primarily regarding the relationship between the knowledge and its application. This thesis aims to broaden the discussion of ethical concerns by engaging with ideas rooted in the social science approach to psychology and framed within the discussion of social justice. It begins with a critical-conceptual analysis of social justice, problematising its definition by entangling the multifaceted meaning of the term, and breaking it down into questions of construction with a focus on ontology, epistemology, and ethics. It then proceeds with grounding the abstract into concrete psychological theories by examining these questions within two contemporary psychological traditions: Contextual Behavioral Science and Critical-Theoretical Psychology. From this, two lines of argument are developed: that reflexivity about psychological theory and practice, in the form of a meta-conversation, can in itself be understood as doing ethics; and second, that the two above-mentioned traditions could provide a pragmatic path forward as a psychological direction with ethical commitments at its centre. In conclusion, the thesis calls for a direction of psychology that has a humanistic core of doing justice by holding ethics as fundamental to psychological theorising.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master) |
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| Supervisor name: | Burman, J.T. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | Theory and History of Psychology [Master Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 16 Sep 2025 14:05 |
| Last Modified: | 16 Sep 2025 14:05 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/5924 |
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